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This week sees the fifth annual horse-driving trials on the Queen's estate at Sandringham.
The first of two programmes about the start of this event in 1983 follows three of the competitors in training.
PRINCE PHILIP has the use of the Queen's bays and Windsor Park to practise in - but has little spare time.
KAREN BASSETT , from Surrey, depends on support from family and friends. And for Suffolk blacksmith ANDY MILLS, it's all down to do-it-yourself and a passion for a new hobby.
Reporter Susanne Hall Film editor KAREN HEWARD Producer MIKE PURTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Karen Bassett
Reporter:
Susanne Hall
Editor:
Karen Heward

opens a season of his films. Today with Honor Blackman Edward Chapman
Accidentally drafted into the army, Norman Pitkin soon confirms his sergeant's worst fears.
But it is not until he is posted behind enemy lines that
Private Pitkin finds himself in real trouble. There he becomes involved with secret agent Lesley Cartland , at the centre of a plot to impersonate a Nazi general....
Norman Pitkin
Screenplay by JACK davies and HENRY BLYTH. NORMAN WISDOM and EDDIE LESLIE
Produced by HUGH STEWART
Directed by JOHN PADDY CARSTATRS
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Contributors

Unknown:
Blackman Edward Chapman
Unknown:
Norman Pitkin
Unknown:
Lesley Cartland
Unknown:
Norman Pitkin
Unknown:
Jack Davies
Unknown:
Henry Blyth.
Unknown:
Norman Wisdom
Unknown:
Eddie Leslie
Produced By:
Hugh Stewart
Directed By:
John Paddy Carstatrs
General Schreiber:
Norman Wisdom
Lesley Cartland:
Honor Blackman
Mr Grimsdale:
Edward Chapman
Sgt Loder:
Campbell Singer
Gretchen:
Hattie Jacques
Henri Le Blanc:
Brian Worth
Captain Wharton:
Terence Alexander
Colonel Layton:
John Warwick
General Hunt:
Arnold Bell
Jean-Claude:
Andre Maranne
Jogenkraut:
Victor Beaumont
Capt Ford:
Frank Williams
Medical officer:
Eddie Leslie

The first of eight programmes Narrated by Michael Bryant In the desperate summer of 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill dreamed of striking back at Hitler's all-conquering armies. Dunkirk had been a humiliation; Paris had fallen; the swastika flew from the Arctic to the Bay of Biscay.
Conventional counter-attack was impossible but a strike from within might just work - sabotage, subversion, and a rising tide of resistance. The idea appealed to Churchill's romantic spirit. He gave
Hugh Dalton , his Minister of Economic Warfare, one of the most secret jobs of World War II: he had to form a new organisation - the Special Operations Executive.
SOE were to infiltrate secret agents into occupied Europe. Where could they find such courageous people? How should they train and equip them? How could SOE breach
Hitler's fortress and obey
Churchill's command to 'set Europe ablaze'?
Series producer DOMINIC FLESSATI Written and produced by CHRISTOPHER RILEYW

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Bryant
Unknown:
Hugh Dalton
Produced By:
Christopher Rileyw

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with reports from around Britain by Ian Smith
Chris Lowe and Nick Worrall Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE , ADRIAN MILNE Producers DIANA MORTON
EAMONN MATTHEWS , NIGEL CHAPMAN Deputy editor PHILIP CAMPBELL Editor TIM ORCHARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Adam Raphael
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
Nick Worrall
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie
Unknown:
Adrian Milne
Producers:
Diana Morton
Unknown:
Eamonn Matthews
Unknown:
Nigel Chapman
Editor:
Philip Campbell

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